The team

Annam has experience in identity politics, especially in the context of religious identity and ethnic identity politics and their relationship with conflict and now wants to extend her research in the area of diasporic identity. She is interested in pursuing a doctoral degree on issues related to migration, nostalgia and diasporic identity. She is really excited to be able to contribute to the project and work alongside the team.

Prior to her master’s studies, she was the Assistant Director of Family Initiatives for a nonprofit organization known as Hopeprint working with refugee families in Syracuse, New York. With undergraduate degrees in both Anthropology and International Relations, Ms.Corieri’s research interests include urbanism and spatial justice, climate migration theory, intercultural education and integration in the context of forced migration. She is currently working with the team from Upstate New York, USA as she continues her own migration story and writes her master’s thesis about homeownership for families from a refugee background. 

Dorani adopted the pen-name ‘Eaten Fish’ after his boat sank in the Indian Ocean during an attempt to seek asylum in Australia. In 2017, Ali became the ICORN resident in Stavanger, Norway, an organization that  helps persecuted artists (ICORN). He has since become involved in a University of Stavanger research project entitled “Our migration history” – where he encourages other immigrant communities to document their own lived experiences of immigration. He has also been working on other artistic/documentary projects in order to share his own story (#eatenfish). For more see https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/ali-dorani

In the spring of 2021, she will write her Master’s Thesis on the topic of multiculturality and racism at Bon Appétit using Critical Discourse Analysis; she is set to submit in June 2021 and will graduate in September. Prior to her master’s studies, she took a Bachelor in European Studies with Spanish at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has previously lived in Italy and Germany, and is currently fulfilling her internship at the Nordic House in Reykjavik. Her research interests include critical discourse analysis; intersectionality; feminism; postcolonialism; and integration in the Nordics.

At the moment, Mr. Lero is conducting independent research as a University of Oldenburg grant recipient on the topic of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on academic mobility programmes in the EU.  He also holds an Erasmus+ Young Journalist Award for Bosnia and Herzegovina for writing on topics of migration and youth. In 2020, he co-founded the Blank Pages, a cosmopolitan art community which works on issues of migration, creativity and identity, and co-edited a multilingual art collection “Fragments of Freedom”.

This allowed him to travel abroad and be introduced to different cultures and cultural exchanges between different minority groups that inspired him to write his BA with a focus on ICC. He recently presented parts of our project to the Immigration research network in Stavanger. Kristian currently works as a full-time teacher in Bryne ungdomsskule in Jæren. 

Her research interests include immigrant narratives, attitudes towards and representations of immigrants, and inclusive participatory research. She has extensive experience working with immigrant communities both in her capacity as a research scholar and as an educator who has taught university students (>11 years) in Norway, the UK and the US. Recent successful grant applications and awards include the UC Davis Diversity and Inclusion Grant and the UC Berkeley Peder Sather Grant. She is also Program Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center. Her most recent publication (2020) “From blind spot to hotspot: representations of the ‘immigrant others’ in Norwegian curriculum/schoolbooks (1905-2013)” in the Journal of Curriculum Studies highlights the overlooked immigrant narratives in Norwegian educational textbooks over time. 

Her doctoral research centred on languages of exclusion in early modern France and her current research interests include critical literacy and critical pedagogy, intercultural pragmatics, language and identity, inclusive participatory research, and performative practices within teacher education. She heads the research group Democracy and Citizenship (DEMCI) focused on inclusive citizenship practices and pedagogies, and the collaborative teacher education project UiS Dembra LU aimed at the prevention of racism, group-based hostility and antidemocratic attitudes in schools and teacher education. Her current research collaborations include the Erasmus+ project Critical Literacy and Awareness in Education (CLAE), the Horizon 2020 project EnviroCitizen: Citizen Science for Environmental Citizenship, and the research project Our Migration History.

Her research focus is on the intersection of gender, race, and environmental justice. For her MA dissertation, Ellen is writing about the development of critical race theories in the Nordic countries. Other topics of interest include visual storytelling in transnational spaces and community organizing through public art. Ellen is participating in the UC Davis “Migration and Aesthetics” project documenting the artistic representation of migration around the world. Ellen completed an internship position with the project “Documenting the Undocumented: Documenting Immigrant Narratives in Norway and the USA through testimonials and digital storytelling” and is happy to be able to continue working closely with the team.

Rafael has broad research interests ranging from international cooperation to human rights and is personally interested in the links between energy and migration. For now, his research focuses on how Norwegian cities can contribute to global climate goals.

In addition, she is taking a degree in HR and Organizational Psychology at the Norwegian Business School, directing herself towards educational management. Julia has 4-year experience in EFL teaching at a Callan Method School and is a certified Callan Method teacher. She also took part in several projects within museum work, course development, teacher training and translation of teaching and learning materials in socio-financial education for “Aflatoun International” 

There she is particularly focusing on topics related to human rights, multiculturalism and international migration law, and pursuing research internship at the Slovenian Migration Institute (SMI) at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). 

Recently she completed her Masters in Literacy Studies at UIS. Her thesis  focused on Indigenous Australian literature exploring the notions of sovereignty, madness and anxiety.  Since then Kimble has participated in the ENRICH Erasmus+ course “English as a Lingua Franca in Inclusive Multilingual classrooms” and is participating in the project ” “Our Migration History” – a community-based participatory project  developed in collaboration with a team of researchers at the University of Stavanger, school teachers and students at two local high-schools, and the local cultural history museum of Stavanger. (MUST). Currently Kimble is working on developing lesson plans for DEMBRA based on this project’s in-school workshops.